Atlantic · in the Kissa Kissa racks
Yes Indeed!
| Recorded | Sep 11, 1952 & Feb 20, 1958 |
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| Label | Atlantic |
| Released | 1952 |
| Personnel | 2 credited players |
| Discogs | master 278390 |
The record
Early Atlantic sides catching Charles mid-transformation, gospel fervor bleeding into R&B swagger with Fathead Newman's tenor already a perfect foil. A snapshot of the sound that would soon rewrite soul music from the ground up.
Session personnel
- David "Fathead" Newman — saxophone [most of the sax solos]
- Ray Charles — vocals, piano
Contemporary reception
No period review located yet. The vintage-press pipeline searches DownBeat, Cash Box, and Billboard for this session.
Pressings
The earliest pressing on file here is the 1958 US Atlantic mono, 8025. Atlantic kept that number in print through 1964 across a run of plant variants -- MGM and Monarch pressings, plus a 1960 deep-groove repress. Britain got London's HA-E 2168 in 1959. Every early copy listed is mono; stereo turns up only on the 1982 French reissue, 50 917. Atlantic's 2019 180-gram mono, still 8025, is the clean modern pick.
Showing the first pressing, audiophile reissues and copies carrying a collector marker, out of 34 pressings on file.
| 1958 | Atlantic · 8025 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono earliest on file |
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| 1960 | Atlantic · 8025 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Repress, Mono, Deep Groove · deep groove |
| 1958 | Atlantic · 8025 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono |
| 1958 | Atlantic · ATLANTIC 8025 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono |
| 1958 | Atlantic · 8025 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono |
| 1959 | Atlantic · 8025 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Repress, Mono |
| 1959 | Atlantic · 332027 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono |
| 1959 | London Records · HA-E 2168 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono |
| 1959 | London Records · RE 5063 — Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM, EP |
| 1959 | Atlantic · 332027 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono |
| 1960 | Atlantic — MONO |
| 1960 | Atlantic · 8025 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Repress, Mono, MGM Custom Pressing |
| 1962 | Atlantic · 8025 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono |
| 1963 | London Records · HA-E 2168 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Mono |
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